Thoughts 05 Oct 2007 08:01 am
The Science of Knots Unraveled
The Science of Knots Unraveled | LiveScience
“Its a common annoyance in everyday life, that anything thats like a string inevitably seems to get itself into a knot,” said the studys senior author Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego.
He added, “Very little experimental work had been done to apply knot theory to the analysis and classification of real, physical knots.”
Kinda makes you wonder how much government money was involved.